Non profit open source
A legal structure to enable open source developers to earn a fair share by contributing to developing new software. Working with 3 simple rules.
For the benefit of the Free world people, sponsored by Clocked S.O.
A legal structure to enable open source developers to earn a fair share by contributing to developing new software. Working with 3 simple rules.
For the benefit of the Free world people, sponsored by Clocked S.O.
Every April, an organization is Non-profit-open-source compliant for the next year if it publishes an annual financial report proven to be controlled by a credited accountant. The financial report should make clear that eventual profit is used for "keep alive" price reductions or product development according to The Crowd funding change principle. And the full source code of the previous production version of the software is available for developers.
(Non-profit-open-source may use proprietary libraries if there is no license cost chain mechanism)
The world changes all the time and software needs to adapt to these changes to stay save and reliable. Therefor there can NOT bee free software without getting outdated;
On the other end humans die sometimes and accounts then also need to die.
For these two reasons a keep-alive fee is needed for every software. It is the only way to keep developers to update your stuf. And for your updates to stop when you are no longer with us or switch to something else.
Put your money where your mouth is. If you want a change, do a change request and help to find funding to implement the change. Every Non profit open-source project has a "change and participate in funding it" platform.